If you’re traveling soon to a place where you don’t know the language well (or at all), then you’ll want to download a language learning app to your smartphone before you embark on your journey. These ...

Wendi Pillars and Tagrid Sihly asked: What are the greatest challenges to improving ELL student achievement, and how can we overcome them? What are the best strategies schools can use to close the ...

How long does it take to become fluent in a language? Here’s the realistic timelines, expert insights, and fluency tips for ...

Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don’t expect fluency from one. Here’s what to expect before you sign up. By Eric Ravenscraft If mobile language-learning apps are to be ...

Afsana Najaf Zada walked into her basic English class on Wednesday morning in the fellowship hall of Faith Presbyterian Church, an old worship space still brightened by stained glass. Most of the ...

Learning a second language has many cognitive benefits. For example, it has been shown to delay Alzheimer's, boost brainpower, reduce cognitive biases, and even increase concentration and the ability ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are some of the most common mistakes teachers make when working with ELLs, and what should they do, instead? Many of us who teach English-language learners make ...

Five years ago, learning a new language online was largely a personal aspiration. In 2026, it has quietly become a career filter. From U.S. companies hiring remote global talent to U.K. enterprises ...

For years, I was told that children should start learning English as early as possible. If they did not begin at the age of three, many warned, they would miss the so-called "golden period" for ...